Trinity South El Sch

Trinity South El Sch operates as an one-room-style elementary school in Washington, Pennsylvania, overseen by Trinity Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 160 students spanning grades K through 3. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Trinity South El Sch sits 64% smaller than that benchmark.

Trinity Area SD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,300 students; Trinity South El Sch is among them.

Looking at the student body, Trinity South El Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder consists of 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Washington County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Trinity South El Sch reports 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.5:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Washington County (around 49%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Trinity South El Sch is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 43.3%; this one delivers 78.7%, a residual of +35.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household income runs about $78,958, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Trinity South El Sch is one of 56 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 26,079 students).

The closest other public school is Washington Park El Sch, roughly 3.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Trinity South El Sch. On composite proficiency, Trinity South El Sch comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.

Trinity South El Sch operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Trinity South El Sch has contracted 42%, going from 275 students in 2018 to 160 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.

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